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Sneak Preview of Google's New Delivery Drone

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21 Oct 2015

Watching baby steps of drone delivery, courtesy of Google X (5 miles in 5 mins is the promise) #zg15 pic.twitter.com/Xk2KyTRURP
— Aaref Hilaly (@aaref) October 19, 2015

This short video shows one of Google’s delivery drones gracefully drop a package at the company’s Zeitgeist confab taking place right now in Arizona.

Aaref Hilaly, a partner with Sequoia Capital, captured the video in a tweet. Then Google CEO Sundar Pichai retweeted it.

Source: Twitter

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